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Celebrate 65 Years with MR Maritime Meanings

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AUGUST 2004.

This edition will herald the evolution of the marine industry over the last six and a half decades, with select snippets and advertisements from editions along the way, as well as an exhaustive editorial analy- sis of the evolution of several key maritime sectors.

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BARBECUE

This is the well-known method of cook- ing food outdoors, popular particularly in Australia, America and New Zealand; in all these countries the word can refer to the informal social event that usually accompanies this kind of outdoor cook- ing. Essentially a barbecue is a metal frame or grill for cooking meat above an open fire of coals, wood or the like.

The word is from the Spanish Barboka.

The connection with maritime usage is that, in the early days of piracy in the

Pacific and the Caribbean, these priva- teers became know as "buccaneers" from the French boucan, grill, or the cooking of dried meat over an open fire.

Buccaneers (later known as pirates) became closely involved with the illegal trading in such meat throughout the

Caribbean. Thus, the innocent and enjoyable pastime of having a barbecue in one's own backyard owes its origin to the bloody history of piracy on the

Spanish Main.

Source: An Ocean of Words: A Dictionary of

Nautical Words and Phrases, by Peter D.

Jeans; Birch Lane Press , 1998

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